2nd presidential bust may end Rick Perry's political career

[TexasTowelie]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Rick Perry spent four years after his 2012 presidential collapse trying to ensure that "Oops" wouldn't be the final word on his political career.

It didn't work.

For the 2016 race, the longest-serving governor in Texas history swapped cowboy boots for eyeglasses, hit the road again, promoted his state's job-creating prowess, boned up with policy experts. This would be a humbler, better prepared candidate, ready for the national spotlight, he promised.

Now, barely three months after Perry announced presidential bid No. 2 in a broiling airplane hangar outside Dallas, the reboot is history.

So, too, seemingly is the political career he wanted to revive.

Read more: http://www.wacotrib.com/news/ap_texas/nd-presidential-bust-may-end-rick-perry-s-political-career/article_52cce574-657c-51a1-b25d-ce103b080372.html

[TexasProgresive]

1. Couldn't happen to a better candidate for obscurity

[tanyev]

2. Or perhaps it finally forces even Perry to admit that his political career is over.

[LiberalArkie]

3. We can only hope.

I know he was an embarrassment to Texans. Now if some of the embarrassing Arkansan's would get out of politics.

Edit: I guess I need to wake up more before I post.

[Gothmog]

4. Perry will run for office again

[TexasTowelie]

5. Well, I guess he could try to get elected to the prisoner's rights advocacy representative?